Have you ever experienced a moment where your emotions totally took control of you? Where, no matter how much you wish you weren’t experiencing the emotion, there was nothing you can do about it? This often happens when we experience fear. You go into fight or flight mode. Your heart starts beating fast, the blood […]

Reading more books is the cheat code to getting what you want from life. Some of the smartest people in the world take the time to share their hard-earned wisdom with you. And you get to digest it all in a few hours. When you start to read more, especially when the books are about […]

There’s a quote from Naval Ravikant that I think about often: “Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” How do you separate the positive benefits of growth, accomplishment, and success with the underlying theme that you, we, do all of these things at least partially […]

Certain truths can’t be measured. There’s no ‘study’ that can ‘prove’ them. That doesn’t mean they’re not worthwhile. I rely much more on these phenomenological truths because they’re proven to be true over time through the experiences of many people. After all this time, I’ve come to believe in the power of the law of attraction. […]

We suffer from the disease of more. Almost all the messaging in society tells you that you need to add something to feel better about yourself. You need better clothes, a nicer car, a bigger home. Or, it tells you that you need to change something about yourself to feel good. Even seemingly positive messages […]

Do you ever wish you could go back in time and talk to your ‘old self’? Or do you ever wish you could go back in time and be your old self, knowing everything that you know now? We’re always caught in this mental loop — thinking about the past and ruminating in the future. […]

“You’re an enigma,” he told me. I was sitting in the office with one of my marketing professors in college, trying to convince him to let me pass his class with a C. We made a deal that if I did well on the last group assignment for the year, he’d let me pass. He […]

Nothing but green. After I made my first initial deposit into my Robinhood investing account, I saw nothing but green. I didn’t have much money in there, but it felt good to see the percentage increase day by day, and most importantly to see green. Just seeing that color has a psychological pull on you. […]

I get it. Changing your life isn’t easy in and of itself. Changing your life in the midst of historically bad times makes the process even more difficult. To pretend that some pieces of self-help wisdom will automatically pull you out of your mental state is foolish. Here’s the way I look at it. Negative […]

We adopt societal scripts that make us feel uneasy with the idea of being successful. You’re made to feel like Monty Burns from the Simpsons if you want to live what, in your opinion, is an above-average lifestyle. There’s a certain level of guilt associated with trying to achieve your long-term goals. Underneath that guilt, […]